Bath-tub attachment.



F. W. BURWELL.

BATH TUB ATTACHMENT. APPLICATION FILED MAR. I8. IIs.

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BATH-TUB ATTACHMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 27, 1917.

Application filed March 1a, 1916. Serial No. 85,044.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED W. BURWELL, residing at East Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bath-Tub Attachments, of which the following is a specification.

This invention comprises a simple and inexpensive attachment for bath tubs adapted to hold a roll of toilet paper and to support a soap dish.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of a device as it appears when secured upon the round rim and side wall of a bath tub, and Fig. 2 is a plan view of said parts. Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the wire frame forming the main body of the device. Fig. 4 is a side elevation of the soap dish afiixed to the wire frame, and Fig. 5 is a cross section on line 55, Fig. 4. Fig. 6 is a perspective View of the roller or spindle used as a supporting core for the roll of toilet paper. Figs. 7 and 8 are plan and edge views, respectively, of the plate which is adapted to rest upon the roll of paper to facilitate severance of the paper. Fig. 9 is a side view of a modified form' of the device.

The main body of the attachment consists of a wire frame or body having curved hook portions 2 joined by a straight connecting portion 3 having an offset 4 centrally between the said curved portions. Moreover, each hook portion 2 is bent inwardly at its front to provide an offset or shoulder 5 adapted to engage the bottom edge of the rim or roll 6 of the bath tub 7 when the said portions 2 are seated in encircling relations upon said rim. The wire frame also includes straight pendent portions or legs 8 extending downwardly from the offsets 5 for about three inches from which lowermost point the said legs are projected rearwardly on parallel lines and also inclined more or less upwardly to provide feet or braces 9 adapted to rest against the outside of the tub wall 7 The roll 10 of the toilet paper is supported between the legs 8 by a loose roller or spindle llwhich has suitable trunmons 12 at opposite sides thereof adapted to seat in rotatable engage ment with the wire frame at the rounded corners or intersections of portions 8 and 9. A very firm and stable support is thus provided for the roll of paper, the brace portions spacing said roll apart from the wall of the tub, while at the same .time such braces prevent the hook portions 2 from turning upon the rim. The wire frame possesses suflicient spring to permit the attachmentto be removed if sufficient force is applied for that specific purpose, but the at; tachment may be readily afiixed to or removed 2 from an ordinary bath tub without springin the frame, providing said frame is brought to the rounded end of the tub where the wall 7 has a decided inward slope which gives the brace portions 9 more freedom of movement to swing the wire frame to a relatively different engaging position upon the bath tub rim 6.

Anadditional feature of the device residesin the means for severing the paper, comprising a relatively light plate 12 having slotted ends adapted to slidably engage the leg portions 8 to seat said plate transversely upon the roll of paper so that the free ends of the paper may be conveniently severed and torn from the main body thereof. The tearing action of the paper applied by a cross pull of the free end thereof has a tendency to lift the plate 12 and defeat such purpose, but such uplift or any tilting of the plate is positively prevented by the use of two downwardly bent lips 13 at the ends of the plate rearwardly of the slots in which the wire legs Sare confined. Briefly, such lips 13 engage at their inner edges with the wire and co-act with the opposite inner edge of the slot which lies on a higher plane to prevent a turning movement of the plate.

A soap dish 15 made of metal is detachably aflixed to the straight connecting portion 3 of the wire frame by means of two ears 16 which are integral portions of the dish body, and by a third ear 17 centrally related on a lower plane to engage with the offset portion 4. The dish may be easily removed by sliding the same longitudinally of the cross portion 3 until car 17 is disengaged from the offset 4, and the dish can be as easily replaced in position by reversing such operations.

In Fig. 9 I show a modified form of the wire frame, the hook portions 2 being bent at a slightly diflerent curvature to conform to the solid roll 6 of a bath tub 7 of different type from that shown in Fig. 1, and the legs 8 are projected forwardly to a greater inclination in view of the greater thickness of the bath tub Wall whichis eirgaged by brace portions 9 as in the other form of the device. 1 r

-ing a wire frame having a curved upper What I claim is: V

1. An attachment for bath tubs, comprising an arch ed frame to seat upon the bath tub rim having inturned projecting por- 'tions to engage the bottom edge of said rim and embodying downwardly-extending leg portions and laterally-projecting foot portions combined with a spindle to support'a tions and an axial support for a roll of paper, in combination with a paper severing plate slidably engaged with said pendent portions. I 3. An attachment for bath tubs, comprisportion to engage the bath tub rim and parallel leg and .rest portions and an axial member to support a roll of paper at the side of the tub, in combination with a paper severing plate having notched and deflected ends slidably engaged with said le portions and adapted to prevent tilting o 1 said plate in severing the paper. 7

4. A new article'of manufacture adapted to support a paper roll on a bath tub and consisting of a wire frame having two iegs v mime? with a cross connection at one end and bent into rounded hook shape at said; connected end to seat upon the rim of a tub and the free ends of said legs bent at substantially right angles to provide a support for the spindle of a paper roll, the said legs having shoulders at the termination of said hook shapeportions. V -r 5. An attachment adapted to support a roll of toilet paper on a bath tub consisting of a wire frame curved at its top into approximately hook shape to seat upon the of the tub and having legs provided with laterally extending braces at the ends thereof, in combination with a roll supporting spindle seated on said legs in the angle at the base of said braces.

6. A toilet article adapted to be supported on bath-tubs consisting or a wire frame having a rounded hook-shaped upper portion adapted to engage over the curved rim of a bath-tub and having integral legs provided with hearings to support a roll of toilet paper at the outside of the tub under the rim thereon.

In testimony whereof I a my signature in presence of two witnesses.

F. C. Hnnnonn E. Knromm. 

